. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . to protect this cutting. One of my most vivid recollectionsof boyhood days, was sitting in myfathers cabin one forenoon watchingthe snow drifting into the storm was something like a west-ern blizzard for it tilled the air and awhite river kept flowing out of thefields into the cutting which soon wasfilled level on the shallow part. I clearly remember the trepidationof my father about the fate of a trainthat was due. He was facing a newcondition for which experience or rulesgave no
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . to protect this cutting. One of my most vivid recollectionsof boyhood days, was sitting in myfathers cabin one forenoon watchingthe snow drifting into the storm was something like a west-ern blizzard for it tilled the air and awhite river kept flowing out of thefields into the cutting which soon wasfilled level on the shallow part. I clearly remember the trepidationof my father about the fate of a trainthat was due. He was facing a newcondition for which experience or rulesgave no guide. Would he flag the trainor let it dash into the snow barrier with perhaps dis-aster to the train ? Ex pi r i en c e i s needed to Ceai hpeople thai Illll- -: into a deep snow drift iv noldangerous. Like a wise as hewas, he compromi ed and signaled caution. ( In the tram came, howe v e r , w i t h o u tabated speed,plunged into thedeep drift a n dSti ipped. Getting stalled in the snow was a back into the cold experience to railway passengers It happened to be a heavily loaded. SNOW BUCKING <i-\ till- CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.
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